[ cheers and applause ] neil patrick hey, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] nice to see you. I am your guest host for the night. My name is Neil Patrick Harris. [ cheers and applause ] thank you, thank you. You may know me from a little show called how i met your mother. [ cheers and applause ] my current show im doing is, a series of unfortunate events. [ cheers and applause ] netflix. Binge it. Im also in the upcoming movie downsizing with matt damon coming out on the 22nd. Very exciting. [ scattered boos ] easy, easy. If youre wondering if matt damon is as bad as jimmy says, the answer of course is yes. [ laughter ] hes garbage. [ laughter ] jimmy asked me to host for him, i immediately said yes. I thought he meant at the oscars. [ laughter ] but i guess its too late to go back now. No, in all seriousness, im very happy to fill in for jimmy tonight. I am thrilled. His son billys heart operation was a success. [ cheers and applause ] he is recovering very well. Jimmy told me today t
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Syrian a conclave of the offering making way for its troops to cross into the area its part of the congress controversial operation against syrian kurds well get the latest from our correspondent in turkey. Balance today the Country Center left social Democrat Party is due to hold a key vote on whether to Enter Coalition talks with merkels conservatives social democrat leader Martin Schultz is in its favor of forming a coalition but he faces strong resistance from within his own party a no vote could lead to a minority government which merkel has already said she wont lead or to fresh elections. Im joined now by our correspondent Thomas Sparrow at the s. P. D. Congress and Vaughan Thomas thanks for joining us the congress is now underway and martin short is just spoken to the delegates why did he promised members to win them around. Martin shows specifically mentioned two areas in his speech which finished a few minutes ago here in bonn one he stressed what the party had achieved in th
Similar decline for the hang seng shanghai off by 0. 3 then in some early trading that weve seen here in europe, you will see things are higher in most of the markets. Germany is the one counter indicato indicator. The cac is up by a half percentage point stocks are higher in london as well checking out things, the yield on the tenyear, 2. 648 . Yesterday the dollar skidded to a threeyear low after those comments from treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin, embracing potentially a weaker dollar and it would be good for trade dollar down across the board again this morning the euro at 1. 2413 the yen at 109. 01. Oil at threeyear highs. Whoa. 66. 04 for wti, and brent at 70. 78 a barrel. Lets get to the sttop stories. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin making more comments about the dollar in davos. Saying the administration is not concerned about the level of the dollar in the shortterm at a press conference yesterday he said the weaker dollar is good for the u. S then wilbur ross came on our
The family of two brothers, aged six and two, killed in a hit and run pay emotional tribute to their two lovely, happy boys. And in hiding and fear the man who revealed russian doping tells the bbc russia shouldnt be allowed at the closing of the winter olympics. Coming up on sportsday on bbc news, the third round of the six nations began this evening, with france and italy playing outside of paris for the first time in their history. Good evening. Members of the Un Security Council are still struggling to Reach Agreement on the terms of a 30 day humanitarian ceasefire in syria. Three times today an announcement has been expected and then delayed. There were more air strikes today targeting the rebel held area of Eastern Ghouta, near damascus, which has been under heavy bombardment since sunday. More than 400 people are reported to have been killed this week. Well go live to the un in new york for the latest in a moment, but first our middle east editor jeremy bowen reports. This is wh